diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b0dba7ee595..48402201e8b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ Trunk (Unreleased)
     HADOOP-10044 Improve the javadoc of rpc code (sanjay Radia)
 
     HADOOP-10125. no need to process RPC request if the client connection
-    has been dropped (Min Ma via brandonli)
+    has been dropped (Ming Ma via brandonli)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS